Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKatsuyuki Tanaka, Yasumasa Nakajima
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Abstract
A printing apparatus provided with a carriage provided with a mounting unit which can be mounted with a cartridge in which ink is accommodated and a printing head, an ink tank which stores ink, and a control unit which controls ejecting of ink using the printing head, in which, in a case in which the control unit obtains information for blocking ejecting of ink corresponding to the mounting unit, ejecting of ink, by the printing head, corresponding to the mounting unit is blocked.
Claims12
A printing apparatus comprising;
- an ink ejecting unit which ejects ink of a plurality of colors;
- a mounting unit on which a cartridge which accommodates ink is mounted;
- a carriage provided with the mounting unit and the ink ejecting unit;
- an ink storage unit which is disposed at a position different from the carriage, and stores ink;
- a sub-tank mounted on the carriage and storing ink received from the ink storage unit, wherein the sub-tank is mounted on the carriage at a different position in a scanning direction of the carriage than the position on the carriage that the mounting unit mounts the cartridge;
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- a control unit which controls ejecting of ink using the ink ejecting unit, and
- a blocking unit built in the mounting unit and having a function of blocking a supply of ink;
- wherein the control unit can be switched between a state of blocking a supply of ink and a state of supplying ink, and wherein in a case of obtaining information for blocking ejecting of the ink corresponding to the mounting unit, the control unit blocks ejecting of the ink corresponding to the mounting unit from the ink ejecting unit.
A control method of a printing apparatus which includes an ink ejecting unit which ejects ink of a plurality of colors;
- a mounting unit on which a cartridge which accommodates ink can be mounted;
- a carriage provided with the mounting unit and the ink ejecting unit disposed on the carriage;
- an ink storage unit which is disposed at a position different from the carriage, and stores ink, a sub-tank mounted on the carriage and storing ink received from the ink storage unit, wherein the sub-tank is mounted on the carriage at a different position in a scanning direction of the carriage than the position on the carriage that the mounting unit mounts the cartridge;
- and a blocking unit built in the mounting unit and having a function of blocking a supply of ink, the method comprising:
- switching between a state of blocking a supply of ink and a state of supplying ink, and blocking ejecting of the ink corresponding to the mounting unit from the ink ejecting unit, in a case of obtaining information for blocking ejecting of the ink corresponding to the mounting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.